• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.225-234
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• 2012

The anechoic chamber is essential tool to measure the various acoustic parameters with high precision. The chamber provides the climate controlled indoor environments but requires the dedicated room at a great cost in order to isolate and absorb sound field. Provided the purpose of the chamber is specific to the experiments of sound localization, the performance requirements excluding free field can be alleviated for cost effective solution. This paper designs low cost and profile anechoic chamber based on acoustic pyramids and evaluates the performance specified by the Annex of ISO 3745. Data analysis is employed to measure the free and hemi-free field performance over five straight paths for working areas and four paths for non-working areas. The identical two measurement campaigns were conducted for free and hemi-free field chamber which is easily interchangeable by simple labor in this chamber design. In the working area with conventional speaker, the results of these analyses demonstrate that lab-designed anechoic chamber is in conformance with ISO 3745 for 250 Hz - 16 kHz one-third octave band at free field chamber and for 1 kHz - 16 kHz one-third octave band at hemi-free field chamber.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.139-142
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• 2008

헤드폰 또는 이어폰으로 오디오 청취 시 흔히 음상이 머리 내부에 맺히는 현상이 발생하게 되며, 이러한 현상을 음상 내재화(Inside Head Localization; IHL)라 한다. 오디오의 음상이 머리 주변 혹은 머리 내부에 맺히게 되면 공간감이나 입체감이 떨어지게 되어 음향의 현실감을 저하시키게 되며 또한 청취에 따른 피로도가 증가하게 된다. 이러한 음상 내재화 현상을 제거하여, 헤드폰/이어폰을 통해 오디오 청취 시 음상이 머리의 외부에 맺히도록(Out of Head Localization; OHL) 하는 기술을 음상 외재화(Sound Externalization) 기술이라 한다. 룸 임펄스 응답이 방향 큐와 연계하여 생성되었을 경우 외재화가 가능하다는 실험적 사실을 바탕으로 기존의 음상 외재화 방법은 일반적인 HRTF (Head Related Transfer Function)를 이용하여 외재화 필터를 구성해왔다. 본 논문에서는 구체마이크로폰을 이용하여 녹음한 멀티채널 룸 임펄스 응답을 기반으로 모델링 된 외재화 필터를 이용한 음원 외재화 방법을 제안한다. 또한 실험 및 결과 분석을 통하여 본 알고리즘의 전방 음원 외재화 성능의 우수성을 입증하고, 외재화 알고리즘 적용 후의원 신호 음상 보존 성능을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.141-146
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• 1999

This study aims at establishing an digital signal processing technique to control 3-D sound localization, especially focusing our eyes on the role of information provided by Head-Related Transfer Function(HRTF). In order to clarify the cues to control the auditory distance perception, two conventional models named Hirsch-Tahara model and auditory parallax model were examined. As a result, it was shown that both models have limitations to universally explain the auditory distance perception. Hence, the auditory parallax model was extended so as to apply in broader cases of auditory distance perception. The results of the experiment by simulating HRTFs based on the extented parallax model showed that the cues provided by the new model were almost sufficient to control the perception of auditory distance from an actual sound source located within about 2 m.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.411-418
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• 2016

In this paper, we developed a new method estimating the location of ballistic missile launching using infrasound signals. Infrasound signal generated from the North Korea's ballistic missile launch was used as source data and its signal was recorded at KMA (Korea Meteorological Administration) infrasound stations located at Cheorwon and Yanggu. Time-frequency analysis, TDOA (Time Delay of Arrival) method and spherical trigonometry were applied for data processing of signal recorded and occurrence location detection. We could confirm the outstanding performance of the algorithm estimating source location which was only 3 km apart from the actual launching site.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.977-980
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• 2011

Wave field synthesis (WFS) has been gathering more and more attention recently due to its ability to perfectly reproduce an original sound field. However, to realize theoretically perfect WFS, a four-sided loudspeaker array that encloses the listener is required. However, it is difficult to build such a system except in large listening spaces, such as a theater or concert hall. In other words, if the listening space is a home, installing a side loudspeaker array is impractical. If the two side walls located to the left and right of the listener can be omitted, a setup using only front and rear loudspeaker arrays may be a solution. In this letter, we present a subjective listening experiment of sound localization/distance based on a WFS using a front and rear loudspeaker array system which is conducted on two listening points and shows average localization errors of $6.1^{\circ}$ and $9.18^{\circ}$, while the average distance errors are -27% (0.5 m) and -29% (0.6 m), respectively.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.1E
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• pp.39-44
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• 1996

Matched field localization schemes often show a high sensitivity to acoustic variabilities due to mismatch between assumed and actual environments. In this paper, we focus on the effect of source motion or Doppler on matched field processing (MEP). to accomplish this, MFP is extended to treat a moving source problem with normal mode description of the sound field. the extension involves both the temporally nonstationary and spatially inhomogeneous nature of the sound field generated by a time-harmonic point source moving uniformly in a stratified oceanic waveguide. It is demonstrated that the impact of source motion can be significant to MEP although the velocity of a moving source is much smaller than the sound velocity of the oceanic waveguide. In addition, a criteria for minimizing the effect of Doppler on MFP is discussed.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.127-130
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• 2006

This paper suggests an algorithm that can estimate the direction of the sound source with three microphones arranged on a circle. The algorithm is robust to microphones' gains because it uses only the time differences between microphones. To make this possible, a cost function which normalizes the microphone's gains is utilized and a procedure to detect the rough position of the sound source is also proposed. Through our experiments, we obtained significant performance improvement compared with the energy-based localizer.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.3E
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• pp.37-44
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• 1996

A new method for efficient modeling of the Head-Related Transfer Functions(HRTF's) without loss of any directional information is proposed. In this paper, the HRTF's were empirically measured in a real room and modeled as the ARMA models with common AR coefficients and different MA coefficients. To assess the validity of the proposed ARMA model, psychophysical tests show that the proposed ARMA model, in comparison with the conventional MA model, requires a small number of parameters to represent empirical HRTF's and improves the back-to-front confusions in sound-field localization. Thus, significant simplifications in the implementations of sound-field synthesis systems could be obtained by using the proposed ARMA model.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.3E
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• pp.33-39
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• 2000

This study investigated whether the adjacency principle. demonstrated in a perceived visual space, can be applied to auditory space. In order to demonstrate an auditory adjacency principle, multiple sound sources were varied in direction and distance in an acoustically absorbant space. Specifically, a NEAR sound source was located 10° to the left of the listener's midline at a distance of 2 meters; a FAR sound source was located 10° to the right at a distance of 5 meters. These sources served as perceptual reference points with respect to the localization of three test sounds, all at a distance of 3 meters. Two of three test sounds were directionally closer to the NEAR and FAR reference sounds, respectively. The other was between the reference sources directionally. The listener was asked to judge the perceived distances and the loudness of the three test sounds and the two reference sounds. The results indicated that the apparent distances of the test sounds were most determined by the disparity of distance between each test sound and the reference sound most directionally adjacent to it. Therefore, the findings offer evidence that the adjacency principle can be applied to the auditory space.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.196-205
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• 2018

This paper presents an algorithm for passive localization of a ship by applying the ray back-propagation technique to the ship radiation noise data. The previous method [S. H. Abadi, D. Rouseff and D. R. Dowling, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131, 2599-2610 (2012)] estimates the position of a sound source in the near-field environment with no array tilt by using the RBD (Ray-based Blind Deconvolution) and ray back-propagation techniques. However, when there exists an array tilt, the above method leads to a large position estimation error. In order to overcome the problem, this study proposes an algorithm that estimates the position of a sound source by correcting the array tilt using the RBD and ray back-propagation techniques. The proposed algorithm was verified by using the ship noise of SAVEX15 (Shallow-water Acoustic Variability EXperiment in 2015) experimental data.